Amagansett Diptych
2008
Oil on two canvases
108 x 216"
Jennifer Bartlett (1941–2022) was born in Long Beach, California, and died in Amagansett, New York. She was a painter whose process‑oriented works have defined her distinct and shifting style. After earning an MFA at Yale University in the 1960s, Bartlett moved to New York, and soon became part of the artistic conversation of the late 1960s and 1970s. Influenced by Sol Lewitt's, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art," Bartlett's early work was fastidious and geometric, with abstract subject matter and unpredictable color palettes. Over her 50-year career, Bartlett's work transformed in size, technique and subject matter.